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ADOBE
First, I’ve been studying Photoshop CS2 for a week and learned some useful stuff. Quality stuff, I’m impressed with CS2 and InDesign CS. My favorite new features are the Bridge, Smart Sharpen, Warp and HDR. Vanishing point, I haven’t used yet, but HDR and warp are great features of CS2. Color coding your menus is cool, and the custom keyboard shortcuts are easy to use. Also, I’ve created a bunch of homemade Actions, and while not a new feature, is a great one anyway. I’m loving my new look at the Levels and Hue/Sat commands and knowing what they do, and successfully manipulating layer masks for the first time.
I’m glad to see that there is a PS CS3 Intel beta. I heard it took Tom 2 minutes to download, well you’ll be happy to know it’ll take me another 13 hrs 22 mins to get the last 500 megs.
KUNMING
We made it back to Kunming to find that our internet was shut off. Official explanation? “The plug dropped.” Yeah I don’t remember the last time an RJ-45 cord “dropped” out of the snapped-in connection. Something smells fishy, but it’s back and slow, and that’s all that matters!
Obviously they didn’t drop the cord, the cord dropped itself with the help of gravity. You’re not giving the cord the credit that it’s due, and you’re giving the people way too much credit for fixing the problem when it’s so clear that the cord dropped itself when you were away all by itself. It’s lucky that they were there to plug it back in now wasn’t it.
I downloaded CS3 beta at work today, and gave up after like 10 minutes because it was only part way through. Our work connection is fast, really fast. In fact, the outbound internet is even faster than fast. Maybe it’s because Level (3) is right under the street. I wonder. CS3 is fast, and I haven’t dug that deep yet, but it seems pretty damn coolio. I crashed it pretty easy just by “#-q”‘ing it.
I can’t wait to see the new sites.
Your new photo slideshow is sweet. I like.